
“Only the deepest love will persuade me into matrimony, which is why I will end up an old maid.”
Even though Pride & Prejudice was released in 2005, it still feels like a new take on a well-known narrative. No other writer has depicted female heroines with such vigor and life as Jane Austen. Knightley was cast as the tenacious Lizzie, Wright kept loyal to the novelist’s sensibility. Lizzie gets both intelligence and beauty from Keira Knightley.